Project Accelerate has just been awarded the NSF DUE Discovery Research K-12 grant, a STEM-education grant which will provide 3-years of funding totaling $450,000. The project’s Principle Investigators at BU are Mark Greenman and Andrew Duffy. Project Accelerate, developed with DEI’s support, is a partnership program between Boston University’s Physics Department in the College of

BU’s Intuitive New Video Capture Tool, CaptureSpace BU recently adopted MyMedia/Kaltura as its supported video sharing platform. Kaltura CaptureSpace is a screen recording software within MyMedia, the university’s new platform for educational video creation, hosting, and distribution. The most comparable tool to CaptureSpace is Camtasia, a 3rd-party video creating/editing platform that many BU faculty have used until

Who: Jeffrey Yan, CEO of Digication When: Thursday, July 13 Where: 141 Bay State Road, Room 104 We are happy to announce the visit of Digication CEO, Jeffrey Yan, for a day of presentations on the New Digication interface and getting the most out of the system. Schedule Session 1, 9:30 – 11:00 am: Introduction to

Boston University Associate General Counsel Dennis C. Hart recently spoke to the Educational Technology Collective about copyright. Hart received his law degree from Harvard Law School, and went on to work in both corporate counsel and private practice before joining BU in 1987. At the university he handles copyright and publishing, trademark, sponsored research, intellectual property,

This article is based on a presentation given by Amod Lele, Senior Educational Technologist at EdTech, titled “Student Work on the Web: Comparing tools.” Pedagogy leads, technology follows. A common misconception about technology in the workplace or technology in the classroom is that more tech, and higher tech, is always better. Good teaching practices are

BU supports a long list of technology platforms, each of which was chosen intentionally to serve a particular purpose and meet a particular need. EdTech is often tasked with evaluating platforms to determine if they still meet our university’s needs, and evaluating whether the adoption of a new platform could significantly benefit our students and

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